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The Business Intelligence Market – What’s Old is New

In(tegrate) the Clouds

Thanks to The OLAP Report for lots of great market materials. Comshare, Pilot, Metaphor, watch out here comes some more: OLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP, MOLAP now my head hurts. OLAP for the masses, gents? OLAP Services, TM1, Pablo, Wired, and Crystal fun. Balanced scorecards, GIS, analytic apps, extranets.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

Typical use cases for DynamoDB are an ecommerce application handling a high volume of transactions, or a gaming application that needs to maintain scorecards for players and games. In traditional databases, we would model such applications using a normalized data model (entity-relation diagram).